Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Monataggart, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monataggart
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.97669, -8.78778
- SMR number
- CO061-022005-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Discovered some time after 1873 in the vicinity of three other ogham stones (CO061-022002-, CO061-022003-, CO061-022004-) but unlike them not removed from the locality (Quarry 1898, 382). Macalister (1945, 119, no. 121) found it 'lying in the farmyard of Monataggart'. He read it as VERGOSO MACI LLOMINACCA, but when he returned to check it, he 'found the stone completely covered with farm rubbish' (ibid.). When inspected in 1992, this stone was lying beside a field fence close to the farmyard. It is not possible to make out more than a few faint scores of the inscription. (Power et al. 1997, no. 7981)
Compiled by: Nora White
Date of upload: 3 March 2016
References
Quarry, J. 1896 Prehistoric remains still remaining in the parish of Donoughmore. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 2, 381-5.
Power, D., Byrne, E., Egan, U., Lane, S. and Sleeman, M. 1997 Archaeological inventory of county Cork, vol. 3: Mid Cork. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
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- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.